At an airfield/8.7 mi away/4,721 ft/161 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Freeze Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Avondale until 9 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 75° after 62° today.
Now. Avondale is 41° and clear at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 75°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:22 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Avondale, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Pueblo (CO), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 33, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Avondale, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Avondale, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At an airfield/8.7 mi away/4,721 ft/161 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
NEPESTA ARKOXFCO - Arkansas RiverAODC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.4 mi away/4,386 ft/174 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW9174EW9174
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.1 mi away/4,844 ft/284 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/36.9 mi away/5,885 ft/1,325 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
La Junta 17 WSW03063
At a climate reference station/39.0 mi away/4,386 ft/174 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Avondale 1.8 NCO-PU-156
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/4,509 ft/51 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wfo PuebloPUBC2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/4,653 ft/93 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.7 mi from Avondale, Colorado. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Wfo Pueblo (PUBC2), 9.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.